Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danny L. Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy Woke Wednesday. A couple of actual good pieces of
Speaker 1: news that I want to delve into today. First, finally,
Speaker 1: after roughly three weeks, the Federal Appeals Court came back
Speaker 1: and said that no, Donald Trump, you cannot just continue
Speaker 1: criming once you have left office and not face any
Speaker 1: consequences whatsoever. That your absolute immunity for life once you
Speaker 1: become president is bullshit. And so a panel of three judges,
Speaker 1: two Democrats and one Republican decided unanimously in a three
Speaker 1: to zero vote that Donald Trump's grounds for appeal on
Speaker 1: this issue that Judge Chunkin initially ruled on is bullshit.
Speaker 1: And so now their fifty seven page ruling, of course,
Speaker 1: is going to be appealed either to the full I
Speaker 1: think it is like the full panel of federal judges,
Speaker 1: or most likely just going directly up to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: which Donald Trump has stacked. Now, a couple of things
Speaker 1: that I want to say about this and what I've
Speaker 1: been hearing on the news since this broke, which is
Speaker 1: one that the Supreme Court about to put themselves out
Speaker 1: of a job if they don't just decide to not
Speaker 1: hear this case, let the lower court's decisions stand and
Speaker 1: move forward and allow Judge Chunkin to move forward with
Speaker 1: her case. And why do I say that, Because if
Speaker 1: you have, if you are essentially the Supreme Court, and
Speaker 1: you are going to rule in favor of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: you are ruling against your own power. And if there
Speaker 1: is anything that this Supreme Court loves more than anything
Speaker 1: in the fucking world, it is power. Right. And so
Speaker 1: if you say that a president can go ahead and
Speaker 1: crime as much as the fuck they want because everything
Speaker 1: that they do can no longer be held to the
Speaker 1: same rule of law that the rest of us are,
Speaker 1: then we are absolutely a fucking banana republic, right like,
Speaker 1: there is no way around that understanding. So essentially, then
Speaker 1: what do I need a Supreme Court for? If I
Speaker 1: am a king right or a queen? If I am
Speaker 1: you know the above all answer, and everything that I
Speaker 1: say and do is right and is beyond reproach, what
Speaker 1: the fuck do I need you for? I don't right.
Speaker 1: And so the further that we inch towards full on
Speaker 1: authoritarianism in this country, the less you are needed if
Speaker 1: you are a judge, right, Because what do I have
Speaker 1: judges for when I'm giving all power to one person? Right?
Speaker 1: And so I really hope that the Supreme Court takes
Speaker 1: that takes their ego and their own personal power into
Speaker 1: consideration when deciding on this case. The fact, folks, you
Speaker 1: know that we are even here, right, that this is
Speaker 1: even up for debate, that it took three fucking weeks
Speaker 1: for the circuit judges to come back and decide what
Speaker 1: it is that we should have just known from jump.
Speaker 1: If you commit crimes, you're not immune from those crimes.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you're the president of the United
Speaker 1: States or a pauper in the street. Like there's one
Speaker 1: set supposedly one set of laws, and becoming president of
Speaker 1: the United States does not make you immune to that fact.
Speaker 1: Donald trump sole reason to become president of the United
Speaker 1: States again is to create a get out of jail
Speaker 1: free card. Donald Trump knew that if he were able
Speaker 1: to announce that he was running for the presidency, then
Speaker 1: he could use that as a talking point that everything
Speaker 1: is a witch hunt and that he alone again can
Speaker 1: quote unquote fix it, right, that if they're coming after me,
Speaker 1: then they're going to come after you. No, motherfucker. People
Speaker 1: only go after right. Law enforcement only goes after people
Speaker 1: when they commit crimes. Right. Do you see what I'm
Speaker 1: saying here, Like people at your level, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about you know, the thousands upon thousands of black and
Speaker 1: brown people that are serving out thirty forty fifty sixty
Speaker 1: year life sentences right on some white supremacy bullshit that
Speaker 1: they were that they were caught up in. And because
Speaker 1: of our broken system, which is not actually broken, it
Speaker 1: is working to encage, rite and enslave black men and
Speaker 1: women and brown people. Like if you are at the
Speaker 1: level that Donald Trump is, and you have the complexion
Speaker 1: for the protection Donald Trump now is just he wants
Speaker 1: to go one step above what is normally afforded to white,
Speaker 1: straight cis super wealthy and famous men and be like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm really teflon don I'm really above reproach. And the
Speaker 1: courts just said, no, the fuck you are not. So. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is not the last time that we are going
Speaker 1: to hear this case, and it is going to be
Speaker 1: put in the hands of the Supreme Court. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is already on his broke ass social medt platform lobbying
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to do his bidding, which is what
Speaker 1: he put them all in place for. And so we
Speaker 1: will see, right, we will see, because I'm assuming you
Speaker 1: know that Clarence Thomas will be on the side of
Speaker 1: Ginny and be on the side of his billion dollar
Speaker 1: sugar daddy Harlan Crow and do whatever he is told
Speaker 1: to do, step and fetch it. And I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: right that we have other folks that are hardcore aligned
Speaker 1: with doing whatever Donald Trump wants. So, you know, sadly,
Speaker 1: we are in a place where, you know, everything is
Speaker 1: up for grabs, that there is no far gone you know,
Speaker 1: conclusion to be made here and the assumption that like
Speaker 1: justice will prevail, because that's not the reality that we
Speaker 1: live in anymore. Nonetheless, this initial ruling is a blow
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump and his attorney's desire to say that
Speaker 1: he can't even be charged whatsoever, and every case against
Speaker 1: him should be dismissed because he shouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: be persecuted because he was president of the United States.
Speaker 1: And what the fifty seven page report said was just like, nah,
Speaker 1: you are no longer president. You are just a regular
Speaker 1: citizen like everybody else. So if you commit crime, you're
Speaker 1: going to do some time, but most likely not. Next
Speaker 1: up is what I think is actually really interesting another
Speaker 1: case that I haven't really talked about here on the
Speaker 1: show too much, but I think that it's worth noting,
Speaker 1: which is the case of Jennifer Crumbly in Michigan. Now,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Crumbly, and this is according to the New York Times,
Speaker 1: was convicted on four count of involuntary manslaughter, one for
Speaker 1: each student that her son killed in Michigan's deadliest shooting.
Speaker 1: Now here's what is interesting about this case. Ethan Crumbley.
Speaker 1: If you all remember when he was I believe fifteen
Speaker 1: years old, he shot and killed four of his classmates
Speaker 1: and injured several others. And the four classmates that were
Speaker 1: killed Madison Baldwin seventeen, Tate Meyer sixteen, Justin Schilling seventeen,
Speaker 1: and Hannah Saint Juliana fourteen, and he pleaded guilty to
Speaker 1: twenty four charges, including first degree murder, and was sentenced
Speaker 1: last year to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 1: This is the first case, however, that we have seen
Speaker 1: where the parents of the shooter are also being held
Speaker 1: responsible for the deaths that their son committed right. Why
Speaker 1: is this well? Because Ethan crumbly Is was a clearly
Speaker 1: mentally disturbed child that was found by teachers in class
Speaker 1: to be drawing pictures of bullets and guns and was
Speaker 1: showing erratic behavior that was brought to the attention of
Speaker 1: his parents on different occasions. On the day of the shooting,
Speaker 1: his parents, I believe, were called into the school to
Speaker 1: essentially take him the fuck home because they had noticed,
Speaker 1: like some really unnerving behavior. They didn't take him home,
Speaker 1: they also bought him a gun. He turns around, brings
Speaker 1: it to school and killed four of his classmates, including
Speaker 1: injuring several others, right, And basically the question that was
Speaker 1: being asked was, how could you not have seen this? Right? Like,
Speaker 1: how could you not have seen that your son was
Speaker 1: having delusions right about ghosts and all of these things,
Speaker 1: on top of which he was writing in journals about
Speaker 1: killing people. And you think that the appropriate gift to
Speaker 1: get this kid is not apparently a therapist, right and
Speaker 1: some intervention, but is to get him a gun. Right.
Speaker 1: So she is now both of the parents are on
Speaker 1: trial and separate trials because they have both turned on
Speaker 1: each other, and the one the father was blaming the mother,
Speaker 1: the mother blaming the father as to why their son
Speaker 1: committed this horrific mass shoot. So now she's been found
Speaker 1: guilty and the maximum sentencing for manslaugh four counts of
Speaker 1: manslaughter is fifteen years in prison. This is incredibly significant, right,
Speaker 1: This is significant for so many reasons because you can't
Speaker 1: sue the gun manufacturers, right, Congress has made that impossible
Speaker 1: to do. So who are you left to hold accountable
Speaker 1: when a school shooting like this takes place? Is it
Speaker 1: not the job of the parent right to know what
Speaker 1: the fuck your kid is doing and up to? And
Speaker 1: maybe if parents now who have guns and own guns
Speaker 1: can now see that, if in fact, your kid is
Speaker 1: not okay and shoots up an entire school, that they're
Speaker 1: not the only ones that are going to fucking jail,
Speaker 1: And maybe that will be a deterrent. Maybe that will
Speaker 1: be something that begins to hold people accountable. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just pie in the sky thinking, right, Because
Speaker 1: as Jonathan and I have talked about on so many
Speaker 1: occasions and will again this week in terms of his
Speaker 1: new book, what We've become Living and Dying in a
Speaker 1: Country of Arms, which is that the approach that we
Speaker 1: have had as Democrats in talking about gun reform has
Speaker 1: been from a moral standpoint right in terms of shifting
Speaker 1: hearts and minds and doing what is morally right, because
Speaker 1: we assumed that everyone would be aligned with the fact
Speaker 1: that children should not have to learn how to army crawl,
Speaker 1: that we shouldn't be turning whiteboards into safe rooms, right
Speaker 1: and doing all everything the bulletproof backpacks and the like,
Speaker 1: that our children should be protected. But we don't all
Speaker 1: agree on that because guns for white people, but particularly
Speaker 1: from white men, are tied to their power, privilege, and
Speaker 1: masculinity in this country. And so you know, we look
Speaker 1: at this decision. I still look at this decision as
Speaker 1: a win. But if we want to win the actual
Speaker 1: war that we are in, then we need to be
Speaker 1: looking at this not through the vantage point of trying
Speaker 1: to shift and change hearts and minds, but trying to
Speaker 1: win the power necessary to put the judges that are
Speaker 1: in place that actually give a shit about the fact
Speaker 1: that we have five hundred million guns in circulation in
Speaker 1: this country. That is two and a half guns for
Speaker 1: every human, every person in this country. There's only three
Speaker 1: hun and thirty million people, but there are five hundred
Speaker 1: million guns. Make it make sense? It does not, you know, folks,
Speaker 1: I say, you know, I bring up these two cases
Speaker 1: and these two initial wins, knowing that these cases will wind,
Speaker 1: you know, their way through. I think that Crumbly's is
Speaker 1: pretty much done, right like, I think that she going
Speaker 1: to jail. It's just going to be about what the
Speaker 1: sentencing looks like. Does she get the maximum do does
Speaker 1: you know, does she only get a few years? And
Speaker 1: then what will now how will this affect her her
Speaker 1: husband's case, which is coming up in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: right like, so that will be something to watch. But
Speaker 1: I want to change gears because I want to talk
Speaker 1: about the presidential election and the fact that a recent
Speaker 1: poll came out that showcases the fact that a majority
Speaker 1: of Americans, sixty percent of Americans believe that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is doing a terrible fucking job when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Middle East, when it comes to Israel and Gaza
Speaker 1: right now, and that while we want to say that
Speaker 1: this issue is extraordinarily complicated and people are only getting
Speaker 1: woke to things, you know, right now, and they don't
Speaker 1: understand the intricacies of what is happening in the history
Speaker 1: of this land, and bah blah blah blah blah. The
Speaker 1: reality is is that people know right from wrong most
Speaker 1: of the time, and they know right now as they
Speaker 1: are scrolling through their social media and they are seeing war,
Speaker 1: the ravages of war, the baby that are being left
Speaker 1: for dead right because hospitals are being evacuated and AID
Speaker 1: can no longer get in, the people that are starving
Speaker 1: to death because the Israeli government will not allow AID
Speaker 1: to get into certain places, bombing the shit out of
Speaker 1: civilians right, tell them to go north, then we bomb
Speaker 1: the north. Tell them to go south, We bomb the south,
Speaker 1: and then there's just nowhere else to go. Right, And
Speaker 1: the fact is that our tax dollars have been forever
Speaker 1: since the creation of Israel, have been going to fund
Speaker 1: right and apartheid system that has different roads, different license plates,
Speaker 1: different laws, different housing, different restrictions for Palestinians versus Israelis.
Speaker 1: You do not need to be a fucking Middle Eastern historic,
Speaker 1: you know, historian to understand how fucked up that is. Right,
Speaker 1: And so if folks are just getting woke to this now,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say, oh, well, where were you blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, blah. The fact is you know now, and
Speaker 1: what you know now is not fucking sitting right with you,
Speaker 1: and I get that. What I also get is that
Speaker 1: if in fact, Donald Trump is able to steal this
Speaker 1: election because of people's opinion about how Biden is working
Speaker 1: in look, I am with you. What I am saying
Speaker 1: is the Palestinian people will have zero fucking chance if
Speaker 1: Trump becomes president. You cannot fight for other people's liberation
Speaker 1: when you are no longer free. That's what I want
Speaker 1: people to understand. Some election. They're not about progression, they
Speaker 1: are just about holding on. And I will continue to
Speaker 1: say that over and over and over again. Do I
Speaker 1: think that what this administration is doing is write apps
Speaker 1: a fucking lutely? Not? Absolutely not. What I also know
Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump will be the end of this
Speaker 1: country as we know it. Project twenty twenty five lays
Speaker 1: that all the way out on the Heritage Foundation's page
Speaker 1: Heritage foundation dot org. Pull up the report. What do
Speaker 1: they put in place? There? A nine hundred page plan
Speaker 1: on how they are going to rid government agencies of
Speaker 1: career appointed people with institutional knowledge of how government works
Speaker 1: so that they can gut the system and rig it
Speaker 1: for Trumpism. How are they gonna do that because they
Speaker 1: already have a database of twenty thousand people to who
Speaker 1: have been vetted, who have received training on how to
Speaker 1: dismantle the agencies from the inside out. There will be
Speaker 1: no fucking recourse, right because what Donald Trump wanted to
Speaker 1: do when people were protesting during this summer of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty in front of the White House, he wanted to
Speaker 1: shoot those people in the leg General Milly said, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can't do that, that's against the law. Donald Trump said, eh,
Speaker 1: there will be no General Milly. And when Donald Trump says,
Speaker 1: pull out the tanks, shoot him in the legs, round
Speaker 1: them up. They're all a threat to our country. Who
Speaker 1: gonna stop him? And before you say that can never happen,
Speaker 1: let me remind you of Japanese internment camps World War two.
Speaker 1: Rounded up all Japanese Americans, put them in camps, no
Speaker 1: due process, no nothing, because they were considered enemies of
Speaker 1: the state. That's all that the president would have to utter.
Speaker 1: We are already watching how universities are firing presidents, as
Speaker 1: they did Claudine Gay at Harvard, as the other president
Speaker 1: resigned in at Penn State. There's already attacks on higher
Speaker 1: education and academics where critical thought and free thought thrives.
Speaker 1: You go after the professors and the academic institutions first.
Speaker 1: You make examples of them. You blacklist people for speaking
Speaker 1: their truth, You put them on lists. One of the
Speaker 1: things that they'd love to do with the Heritage Foundation
Speaker 1: is to create a new McCarthyism. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: the head of the Heritage Foundation said in a very
Speaker 1: fluffy New York Times piece that was done a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks back, is that McCarthy went about things wrong,
Speaker 1: but his you know, what he was trying to do
Speaker 1: wasn't terrible. His strategy just was I'm sorry, what the
Speaker 1: red scare rounding up those that were just labeled communists
Speaker 1: that had nothing to do with communism, but you saw
Speaker 1: them as a threat. Joe McCarthy, that is held out
Speaker 1: as like a red flag. But the Heritage Foundation president
Speaker 1: thinks that he's a model. Wake up, folks, you ain't
Speaker 1: getting another bite at this apple. If we give this
Speaker 1: election to Donald Trump by virtue of the fact that
Speaker 1: we decide that we are sitting home because we don't
Speaker 1: like what is happening in Palestine and Gaza, you don't
Speaker 1: like what is happening in Gaza, then I tell you
Speaker 1: to actually vote for the person that you can pressure,
Speaker 1: that you can push, not the one that sees themselves
Speaker 1: as a dictator on day fucking one and think that
Speaker 1: you'll just get him again in twenty twenty eight. There
Speaker 1: will be no twenty twenty eight. That's all I have
Speaker 1: to say today, folks, on this Woke Wednesday, A little
Speaker 1: bit of good news and a lot of reality. What
Speaker 1: is it for me today, dear friends on woke A app
Speaker 1: as always power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.